[Xastir-dev] Heads-up: Festival replacement may need to be found

[Owen DeLong]

I hit send a bit too quickly…

This link has some good information:

http://blog.michaelamerz.com/wordpress/the-state-of-the-art-linux-text-to-speech-tts/ <http://blog.michaelamerz.com/wordpress/the-state-of-the-art-linux-text-to-speech-tts/>

I think Mimic (the TTS engine from Mycroft) might well be a good choice. If we want, we could also add skills for Mycroft that would allow it to go both directions… Not only TTS, but we could command XASTIR hands free with speech.Initially this could be some pretty rudimentary things like “center map on <callsign>”, “zoom in”, “zoom out”, etc. Then, over time, we could develop more and more useful command sets.

Just a thought.

Owen


> On May 12, 2019, at 17:21 , Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> 
> May I suggest looking at Mycroft as a possible replacement.
> 
> Owen
> 
> 
>> On May 12, 2019, at 16:42 , David Flood <davidf4 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Gentoo has dropped support for installing Festival due to the time since the
>> last code update/release and the lack of an active package maintainer.  It's
>> possible that other distros may follow making Festival a manual install if
>> you want to use it with Xastir.
>> 
>> D. Flood
>> KD7MYC
>> 
>> 
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